sealjam

7 ms·

1. 1.▲
   by sealjam 5y ago

   Crudely speaking, the fact that they work at AWS means that it’s in their best interests for AWS to be perceived positively. When this is the case it’s often nice to state this conflict of interest, so others can take your appraisal in the
2. 2.▲
   by sealjam 5y ago

   I always think of pence as 1/100 of a £, but pennies as multiple penny (1p) coins. I’m not sure whether it’s just me.
3. 3.▲
   by sealjam 5y ago

   > …RedPanda, a scratch backend rewrite in Rust that is client API compatible I thought RedPanda was mostly C++?
4. 4.▲
   by sealjam 5y ago

   Can confirm, I’m British and often use “cheers” to mean “thank you”.
5. 5.▲
   by sealjam 5y ago

   It does say there’s a heroku edition “coming soon”
6. 6.▲
   by sealjam 5y ago

   Not the OP but here in the UK there's a separate category of fridge-freezers called "American Fridge Freezers" which are typically the huge ones you describe. Everybody I know has a fridge-freezer, but not many of those are &
7. 7.▲
   by sealjam 5y ago

   Shouldn't that be <insert_different_british_comedy_troupe>?
8. 8.▲
   by sealjam 5y ago

   Are you in the UK? I too noticed how much emphasis there's been in the commentary in this tournament on players being "cute" with tactical fouls.
9. 9.▲
   by sealjam 6y ago

   I think parent is using “shit-post” to describe a negative post. Like this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shitposting
10. 10.▲
    by sealjam 6y ago

    I take your point, but I don’t feel it’s disingenuous to take the quote at face value. Maybe the quote lost some context but talking about “...levels of voting...” being a negative thing seems like a pretty obvious admission of a desire to
11. 11.▲
    by sealjam 6y ago

    Same race, different descent, different era, but this was also an eye popping descent Niccolo Bonifazio descending the cipressa https://youtu.be/Wb5G-18YLeI
12. 12.▲
    by sealjam 6y ago

    I assume you mean "it is not ready for public use yet"?
13. 13.▲
    by sealjam 6y ago

    I just read I Have America Surrounded[1] a biography of Timothy Leary and found it fascinating. His descriptions of levels of consciousness are a bit wacky but I think helped me understand the appeal of psychedelics. I assume Timothy Leary
14. 14.▲
    by sealjam 6y ago

    I think the responder misread your message and assumed you were adding a suffix like \+\w+ to the end of your email addresses like name@gmail.com -> name+suffix@gmail.com Several email providers treat a + symbol as the end of the first p
15. 15.▲
    by sealjam 6y ago

    This was the same for me. I think it’s because it was a line-level GitHub comment and the line has now changed. It is possible to expand the post if you click “Show Outdated” on the two collapsed posts underneath the comment saying: “LGTM a
16. 16.▲
    by sealjam 7y ago

    Does London have a reputation for bad food?
17. 17.▲
    by sealjam 7y ago

    The lead engineer/designer on the project makes this claim in these slides. I don't know whether this gives the claim more veracity in your eyes, but it's there. [1]: http://martinsumner.github.io/presentation
18. 18.▲
    by sealjam 7y ago

    I've never heard it described like that but you're right. Interesting counter point.
19. 19.▲
    by sealjam 7y ago

    Anecodatal but: In London there are already multiple shops/restaurants/bars that no longer accept cash.
20. 20.▲
    by sealjam 7y ago

    I assume you're referring to the media company 'oath'[1] not the auth framework 'oauth'[2]? [1]: https://www.oath.com/ [2]: https://oauth.net/
21. 21.▲
    by sealjam 7y ago

    Is avoiding using "their services" sufficient or even possible/plausible? I may be being overly cynical here, but I think it's relevant. "The homepages of popular sites placed cookies for 275 third-party hosts. In j
22. 22.▲
    by sealjam 8y ago

    I assume the OP meant less environment damage from building roads, not that flying cars would be produce less CO2 than land cars.
23. 23.▲
    by sealjam 8y ago

    You describe my experience almost exactly. One difference here in the UK is that I'm unable to even pay for HBO. I wanted to watch Generation Kill the other day, it seemed like it was available on amazon prime but in fact isn't av
24. 24.▲
    by sealjam 8y ago

    For anybody wondering. These areas of London are all extremely wealthy. It might be possible that the demographics populating these areas might be less 'grateful' for the services the NHS provides.
25. 25.▲
    by sealjam 8y ago

    I read the parent post as highlighting the fact that the illegality of opiates/meth is not helping to protect people from them. Perhaps the implication is that we need other solutions aside from making things illegal.
26. 26.▲
    by sealjam 8y ago

    I find it slightly ironic that when I view that imgur image to see how much screen the economist takes away, ~30% of the window is obscured by a cookie warning and the content is dimmed. Not a critique of the thecatspaw.
27. 27.▲
    by sealjam 8y ago

    Dropbox paper has mentions and I wouldn't consider it social media. Same for trello.
28. 28.▲
    by sealjam 8y ago

    I'm by no means an expert on any of this stuff, but: > They only require one other replica (as opposed to a quorum) to be reachable from the master for the master to continue acknowledging writes (from your comment) > Orchestrato
29. 29.▲
    by sealjam 8y ago

    Agreed. The thing it took me a long time to realise about stuff like that is that you're not winning by breaking your neck to get something done for an unrealistic deadline, they are!
30. 30.▲
    by sealjam 8y ago

    Is there any guarantee it won't destroy more of itself later? Does anybody know how the shredder in the frame was controlled?